Neuroscience
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What Happens to My Brain on the Psychedelic DMT?
One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
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Neuroscience Has a Race Problem
Why Black people are poorly represented in neuroimaging studies—and how science can do better.
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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.
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What Does Love Do to Us?
One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University.
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What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me
I’ve created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.
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Why Your Brain Isn’t Into the Future
What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.
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The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life
If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?
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The Afterlife Is in Our Heads
The real meaning of near-death experiences.
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How We Remember Last Weekend
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
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How Your Brain Fills in the Blanks with Experience
Our neurocircuitry is profoundly shaped by a lifetime of learning.
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How the Brain Allows the Deaf to Experience Music
Our sensory systems for hearing and touch overlap to stir a wealth of emotions.
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Does an AI’s Ability to Talk Mean It’s Conscious?
One question for Raphaël Millière, philosopher of cognitive science at Columbia University.
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Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?
To better understand our brains and design safer anesthesia, scientists are turning to EEG.
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No Two Human Brains Are Alike
The uniqueness of each mind is written in its ever-changing circuitry.
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“I Have to Admit, I Have a Very Low Opinion of Human Beings”
Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.
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Free Will, Illustrated
Does the body rule the mind? Or does the mind rule the body?
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AI Is Helping Scientists Explain the Brain
But what if it’s telling them a false story?
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What’s So Hard About Understanding Consciousness?
We brought Antonio Damasio and Anil Seth together to share their insights into neuroscience’s big question.
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I Feel, Therefore I Am
Consciousness is a continuous conversation between the feeling body and the knowing mind.
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Are Kids Ready for Virtual Reality?
Will too much time in the virtual world impact how children develop in the real one?
